I encountered this issue after a dvd install a while back, unable to give the snapshot number at this point. What I found before responsibilities got the better of my time, that if you disable vpdau and used the standard acceleration it worked. When you check the Mplayer_Player log file, there was a complaint about cannot find -vo and I believe xv(working from memory here), if vdpau or auto is enabled, around the time playing the black.mpeg and before playing or attempting to play the movie in question.

I just tested adding the avenard repo back into lmce and the mythtv repository pinning that is employed in the current snapshots seems to allow avenard to be used safely for mplayer. Adding the avenard repo and doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will pull in mplayer from avenard and leave mythtv untouched (it's pinned to the lmce repo).

Is this work around still working for you with all the updates? I tried a dist-upgrade after the end of life with the new sources.list when I was trying to install something new and it basically broke the system. I had to do a new install--which on my system means a lot of fooling around to get everything working again.

Also can you play recorded mythtv files in LMCE and get both video and sound after you do this? I only get video currently with these files and no sound. Many thanks!

I would advise against apt-get upgrade with the avenard repo in the sources.list. However, if all you want is a specific mplayer version, why not adding avenard repo, apt-get update, apt-get install mplayer , remove avenard repo?!

Is this work around still working for you with all the updates? I tried a dist-upgrade after the end of life with the new sources.list when I was trying to install something new and it basically broke the system. I had to do a new install--which on my system means a lot of fooling around to get everything working again.

The avenard repository is still in my sources.list, dist-upgrade pulls in mplayer and libx264-65 from avenard and everything else, including mythtv, from the lmce or ubuntu old-releases repositories. Avenard hasn't updated his intrepid repository in a long time... It just works for me!

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Also can you play recorded mythtv files in LMCE and get both video and sound after you do this? I only get video currently with these files and no sound. Many thanks!

Upgrading mplayer will have no effect on playing Mythtv files in LMCE. LMCE will play mythtv files with xine.